We will be hosting an Official Fly-in alongside a group of community members (you!) on Twitch. This is an open event, free to those who would like to fly along with us and available for all skill levels. The goal is to have a great time, explore new locations of the world, and make new friends.
Flight plans will be brought to you by @Pieter1982NL and your regular hosts will be @simtom2 and @Jummivana.
This guided tour is brought to you by @RoyalTot (our newest CM).
When: Friday, 1900Z, for two hours.
Where: The Official Twitch Channel of MSFS
There will also be a Discord event channel open for those who want to voice chat.
16.10 FLIGHT DETAILS
Our newest Community Manager, @RoyalTot, will be joining us for the first time on stream to give us a tour of his hometown: Moscow, Russia! In addition, he will be bringing along his father, Andrew, as another expert on the area. We will be using the 3rd party item ‘Moscow Landmarks’ from the Marketplace to explore this beautiful area.
PLANNING
We will be using an Xcub for this event. Feel free to pick any slower GA plane.
Starting airport is at UUMB. Please load your aircraft 15 minutes prior to take off and taxi over to the taxiway or parking.
WEATHER
We will be using a custom snow preset. See link to Drive below.
MULTIPLAYER SETTINGS
Please adhere to the following settings so you can see everyone / be seen by everyone.
Variable | Setting |
---|---|
Server | West Europe |
Multiplayer | All |
Live traffic | As desired |
Weather | Clear Skies |
COMMUNICATION
To communicate with others, a voice channel on the "Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Discord” at https://discord.gg/msfs will be available to join.
It is advised in this flight to turn off both aircraft collisions and terrain collisions. If you do crash, you can use “slew” mode to join the pack. If the pack will be too scattered before the first stop, we will use slew on a defined point to regroup.
FLIGHT PLAN
A .PLN file is provided by the following link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/12gUJtn-VJV_b9moeLPwafkTxYNK1LXHz
To use the flight plan, follow these steps:
- Download the flight plan to a easy-to-remember location
- Open MSFS
- Go to the globe
- Click “Load/Save” on the bottom of your screen
- Click “Load”
- Navigate to the downloaded flight plan
- Click load.
LET’S FLY
This is meant to be a fun and informal flight. Everybody is welcome, no matter the amount of experience.